Massaging device.



F. JOHNSON.

MASSAGING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUGHZBI 1918.

1,326,452, Patented Dec. 30,1919.

ATTORNEY TTNTTED STATES PATENT UFFTOE.

FRANK JOHNSON, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

MASSAGING DEVICE.

Application filed August 28, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK Jonnsoxfa citizen of the United States,residing in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Massaging Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention relates to means for softening the beard in shavingoperations, and the object of the invention is to provide a device ofthis character which shall offer the desired smooth and slightlyyielding surface while avoiding irritation of the skin.

Another important object is to provide means for conveniently graspingand operating such device, adapted also to contain a supply ofshaving-cream or like semifluid soap which may be delivered to themassaging surface as required, and to serve as a receptacle for ashaving briish.

The invention consists in certain novel features and details ofconstruction and arrangement by which the above objects are attained, tobe hereinafter described and claimed.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification and show anapproved form of the invention.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the device.

Fig. is an axial section taken on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1, and partly inelevation.

Fig. 3 is a face view of the massaging disk.

Fig. 4 is an elevation of the receptacle for shaving-cream, removed fromthe holder.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

The massaging member must be a substance or material which will providethe required friction and not roughen or burn the skin unduly; it mustalso offer a smoothly rounded contour to avoid abrasion due to sharpcorners or angles, and it should be light, and inclined to softenslightly when moistened.

Cork offers the best agency for this purpose, as on account of itspeculiarly velvety texture and slightly yielding 'character it seems tocling to the beard and may be rubbed briskly upon the surface tobetreated, without irritating the skin.

In the drawings the cork is shown in the form of a circular disk Ahaving a plane upper face cemented or otherwise secured to Specificationof Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 34 1919.

Serial No. 251,781.

a block A of wood or other suitable material. which is threadedperipherally to screw into a threaded sheet-metal shell 13, or the corkmay be threaded and screwed into the shell as will be understood. Thelower face of the disk A is domed and preferably corrugated in onedirection, the corrugations at having sufficient width to provide therequired strength and rounded frictional area. 1

By grasping the shell B as a holder the disk may be rubbed upon themoistened or lathered skin as will be understood, the direction ofmovement being preferably transversely of the corrugations.

\Vithin the shell is received a cream tube or cylindrical receptacle Chaving a neck C extending through the block B and partially through thedisk A. The receptacle is adapted to contain a supply of shavingcream Mand the nozzle or neck 0 is closed by a removable plug C Exterior to theshell B and correspondingly threaded is a cap D of sheet metal adaptedto screw telescopically upon the shell. It is closed at the top by acover D permanently attached and having a central screw-threaded nippleD On the interior of the cap and depending from the under face of thecover is a hollow cylindrical plunger E adapted to enter the slightlyflared mouth of the receptacle C and to serve as a piston in forcing thecream M through the nozzle C by the act of screwing the shell B into thecap D.

The interior of the plunger E is utilized as a chamber to contain thebrush portion of a shavingbrush N which is held in place for convenientremoval by engaging the threads on its neck N with the threaded nipple Dthus protecting the brush portion and permitting the handle N toprotrude axially of the cap and shell. The brush may be used inspreading the lather smoothly after the face has been massaged.

The cork massages the skin efliciently while the grooves between thecorrugations a a spread the lather and maintain the desired moistcondition of the skin during the softening operation.

Th mouth of the receptacle C may be stopped by a plug not shown, orother removable closure to be opened when the receptacle is inserted inthe shell. It is shown as a removable chamber but it may be fixed in theshell, or inserted in the form of the Well-known collapsible tube; inany case the contents is ejected by the compression produced by theplunger E in the act of telescoping the shell and cap. The threads onthese parts may be omitted and the shell and cap nicely fitted totelescope frictionally one Within th other.

Only one opening is shown in the disk A and receptacle C, Which deliversthe cream centrally, but a plurality of such openings located as desiredmay be employed to distribute the cream over the surface of the disk.

I claim V 1. In a device of the character described. a disk of corkhaving an opening therethrough and of sufficient rigidity to maintain atall times its predetermined form, a

shell at one end of which said disk is affixed, a receptacle Within theshell, a plunger in the receptacle, and a cap having threaded engagementwith the shell and carrying said plungerto force the contents of thereceptacle through said disk.

2. A massaging device comprising a shell, a receptacle Within saidshell, a neck extend 'ing from said receptacle, means for forcing thecontents of the receptacle through said neck, a disk in said shellaround said neck, and a circular disk of cork through Which said neckpasses, said cork disk having its outer surface convened andtransversely corrugated.

In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth I aflix mysignature.

FRANK JOHNSON.

